The Rising Sun Experience

Rising Sun Dance & Theater tours professional work throughout the country. In every city and town we visit, our mission is to access, utilize, and enliven the web of local talent, knowledge, resources, and community through the following ways:

Main Theater Venue
We book a series of shows at a local theater, supporting the theater through a season of high-quality, audience friendly, community enriching shows, workshops, guest speakers, and special events.LEARN MORE>>

Event Sponsor/Supporting Venues
While in residence at a main theater venue, we also share our work with a diverse cross-section of community by bringing our shows to the venues of churches, spiritual centers, community, senior, and teen centers, activist groups, clubs, student organizations, public, private schools, and home school groups, additional theater arts organizations, special events, festivals, and private house concerts. These performances generate income for the groups while also encouraging people of all walks of life to experience the joy of theater in the main venue.LEARN MORE>>

Educational Partnership for the Performing Arts
While in residence in a main theater, we bring workshops into local schools, working with kids of all ages to augment arts programming. We offer one of our shows to the school for a benefit performance at their facility to fund their arts education programs and performing arts events.LEARN MORE>>

Local Leaders Featured in Workshops, Talk-backs, and Lectures
We reach out to speakers, professors, activists, and community groups and leaders working on the subjects thematic to the shows being presented, inviting them to provide their knowledge and expertise to our listeners in a series of concurrent workshops, question and answers and lectures.LEARN MORE>>

Guest Speakers and Teachers Offer Community Enrichment
Complimenting local leaders, Rising Sun Dance & Theater invites nationally recognized teachers and speakers to offer events that enrich local communities by bringing additional viewpoints, studies, and approaches to the thematic materials of the plays.LEARN MORE>>

Establishing Local Performers for a Region
Rising Sun Dance & Theater believes in nurturing and growing the talent of performing artists in balanced, healthy, sustainable relationship to themselves, their families, geographic communities, and the earth. For these reasons, we tour the ‘works’, not the performers. We hire actors and technicians by region, minimizing transportation, and allowing our artists to maintain homes, loves, and lives connected to their communities.

Education Partners
Partnering with Rising Sun Dance & Theater to bring arts education to a school near you!

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Thank you for sharing a reading of your play with me. When I heard “The Imagine-a-nation of Lala” I knew I was in the presence of genius. My life hasn’t been the same since. I can hardly wait to see it on the stage.

Quote of the day:

"Right before our eyes sings the poetry of the Universe.
Water flows from the tap.
Light snaps on against the dark.
A generation of fruit flies
explodes in our kitchen.
If I should stop to sing the praises
of every miracle I meet
why! the day would be over
before I even got out of bed!"

-Freedom Stories: volume one
verses and commentaries from the Lala Plays.
by Rivera Sun Cook

“Through the passages of possibility,
outside rhythmic time’s tick-tocking,
from the void of all potential . . .
I have come.

"Because across the star-strung vastness
I heard you cry.
And I?

"I am the Author of the Story of the World."

-"Dispatches from the End of the World"
by Rivera Sun Cook
Coming Fall 2012